Improvement in neck-ties



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEoE.

IRA W. HAMLET, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HENRYJ. CHAPMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-TIES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,168, dated September18, 1866.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA W. HAMLET, of Nashua, in the county ofHillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Cravats or Neck- Ties; and I do hereby declare the sameto be fully described in the following speciiication, and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a rear view, and Fig. 2a transverse section, of one of my improved cravats or neck-ties. Fig. 3is a side view of the eravat hook and stretcher, and Fig. 4 is an edgeview of such.

The purpose of my invention is to cause a eravat to remain in place orprevent it from rising on-tlie collar of the shirt while in use.

In the drawings, A denotes a common cravat or Napoleon tie.77 BB are twohooks fastened in or to the cravat, to project from its inner side, theybeing so arranged as to hook underneath the lower edge .of the collarwhen it is encompassed by the cravat. They serve to keep the eravat fromrising or working upward on the collar, so as to expose the button bywhich the front parts of the collar are fixed to the shirt.

The collar, under such eireumstanees,is supposed to be what is termed afalse collarthat is, one not sewed to the shirt; but when when thecollar is sewed to or inseparable from the shirt, there may be smallholes wrought the hook is shown at B, and the plate at C, A

such also being exhibited in Fig.3. The plate is placed within theeravat, and extends from one edge to the otherof it, and serves as astiffeuer to prevent it from breaking down or beoomin g wrinkled.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the plate and the hook are exhibited as made from onepiece of metal.

Holes may be made through the supportingplate of the hook to enable itto be sewed to the eravat.

1. The new manufacture or neck-tie as made with hooks B B, applied toand arranged with the part or cravat A, substantially as set forth. l

2. The combination of the hook B, the cravat A, and the stiiit'ener orplate C.

3. The combination of the cravat hook and stift'ener, the same being forthe purpose set forth.

IRA W. HAMLET.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

